And so he did that at Phoenix, and they were calling me, and he said, “My gosh, he’s vomiting, he’s vomiting, and then he’s gonna eat it. So we’ve been washing it all out of the …” I said, “No, wait, wait, that’s part of his physique, you know, part… Read More
Now you talked about anesthetizing Baltimore Jack, was that your, was working at the Baltimore Zoo the first time that you really had vast experience using anesthesia?… Read More
They had him laying on his back, and so he was gurgling pretty bad. So we had to turn him over before we even got, and got about a pint of saliva out of him, and then he breathed okay, and put him in an ambulance, and took him to… Read More
And what was the gorilla’s name, the name?… Read More
And they wouldn’t do that, because it would be competing with commercial. And this is moving the gorilla from Baltimore. To Phoenix. Read More
Baltimore Jack. And so we contacted some commercial people, and the commercial people said, “Well, if you’re gonna put a gorilla in our plane, you’re gonna rent the whole plane”, we’re not gonna be able to put it in the, you know, compartment in the back like we’ve done later… Read More
So then we started, the two zoos talked together, and arranged, you know, some kind of a loan agreement, I don’t know, wasn’t any part of that discussion, and then the next part I was in a discussion, how are we gonna get the gorilla to Phoenix?… Read More
Well, the story I tell when I give my talks about this, and show my slides, we looked at having the Armed Forces give us a plane, or they, you know, the Reserves are gonna fly, they fly everywhere, why couldn’t we just put him in a crate, and move… Read More
Did you get close to any of the animals at the Baltimore Zoo?… Read More
Any stars of the Baltimore Zoo?… Read More
Were there any key animals you worked with?… Read More
Well, the major one was that pygmy hippo that I described. Well, the gorilla, we had a gorilla, a single male gorilla at the Baltimore Zoo, and you know, the classic story is, you know, and we were learning a little bit about reproductive physiology and we decided we needed… Read More
Were there any major obstacles you had to overcome working at the zoo?… Read More
At Baltimore?… Read More
I wouldn’t say so other than, you know, trying to cut my teeth and gain some experience and things like that and get some confidence in the practicing medicine would reward, show you rewards in a zoo setting. No, we got the drugs we needed. I got the cooperation, if… Read More
What was the day like at Baltimore?… Read More
I mean you were coming from one job, you could just come in there and make rounds, or did you check in with someone, and they told you what they wanted you to look at, or … Well, from my house where I was living out in the suburbs of… Read More
Yeah, it was, I think I enjoyed it more, ’cause one thing that I found out at Angel and I think the reason now that I could not go into private practice was that I’d see an animal brought into Angel and even though it was an SPCA hospital, and… Read More
Everything. Yeah, I had the advantage of, when I was at Angel Memorial, there was a, one of the first veterinarians, Midge Petrach track that was doing pet birds, and had written, wrote a book on that. So we had an exposure to birds and basic bird medicine when I… Read More
And so it must have been, was it so much different from working at Angel, and working at the zoo, aside from the exotic end of it?… Read More